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Grow Your Grit: Overcome Obstacles, Thrive, and Accomplish Your Goals
Everyone wants more grit. Students. Athletes. Executives. Sports Teams. Entrepreneurs. Non-profits. Military units. Companies. Until now, there wasn’t a process to develop grit. In Grow Your Overcome Obstacles, Thrive, and Accomplish Your Goals, David Fivecoat combines science, hard-won experience, and a wide-range of real life stories to illuminate the mysteries of developing grit. Whether you are trying to grow your personal grit or attempting to develop your group into a gritty organization that achieves its long-term objectives, Grow Your Grit will help you do it more effectively. From the battlefield to the boardroom to the ballet studio, leaders are leveraging their grit to achieve the improbable. As Fivecoat shows, by harnessing your grit, we can transform ourselves, our lives, our families, our teams, our businesses, and our communities. Grow your grit, thrive, and accomplish the impossible.
Advanced Praise for Grow Your
“Grow Your Grit provides a clear and compelling blueprint for a critical task—developing individual grit, that all-important leadership quality of sheer determination that enables us to overcome obstacles, drive on in the face of adversity, and persevere through hardship. David Fivecoat—with whom I was privileged to serve several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan—leverages his enormous experience and considerable expertise from leading Army units through years of tough combat and also in significant peacetime tasks to provide a book that is a must-read for any leader at any level seeking to build fortitude and grit!”
General David Petraeus, US Army, Retired,
former commander of the surge in Iraq and former director of the CIA
“Grit powered West Point’s basketball team to an undefeated season in 1944 – and victory on the battlefields beyond. Grow Your Grit provides a blueprint for you to develop the same grit within your business and dominate the competition."
Jim Noles,
Author of From Basketball to Battle – West Point’s Perfect 1944 Season
"Major Dick Winters and Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had grit in spades. David Fivecoat captures how to create similar grit in your organization."
Colonel Cole Kingseed, US Army, Retired,
NY Times Best Selling Author of Beyond Band of Brothers
Advanced Praise for Grow Your
“Grow Your Grit provides a clear and compelling blueprint for a critical task—developing individual grit, that all-important leadership quality of sheer determination that enables us to overcome obstacles, drive on in the face of adversity, and persevere through hardship. David Fivecoat—with whom I was privileged to serve several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan—leverages his enormous experience and considerable expertise from leading Army units through years of tough combat and also in significant peacetime tasks to provide a book that is a must-read for any leader at any level seeking to build fortitude and grit!”
General David Petraeus, US Army, Retired,
former commander of the surge in Iraq and former director of the CIA
“Grit powered West Point’s basketball team to an undefeated season in 1944 – and victory on the battlefields beyond. Grow Your Grit provides a blueprint for you to develop the same grit within your business and dominate the competition."
Jim Noles,
Author of From Basketball to Battle – West Point’s Perfect 1944 Season
"Major Dick Winters and Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had grit in spades. David Fivecoat captures how to create similar grit in your organization."
Colonel Cole Kingseed, US Army, Retired,
NY Times Best Selling Author of Beyond Band of Brothers
212 pages, Paperback
Published June 18, 2021
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